Doctoral Students Present at Mathematics Education Conference
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Doctoral student, Denish Akuom, along with his supervisor, Dr. Steven Greenstein, presented his paper, 鈥,鈥 at this year鈥檚 PMENA conference in Philadelphia. Congratulations Denish!

In this presentation, Denish and Dr. Greenstein share what they鈥檝e learned about how the designing and testing of 3-D printed manipulatives by prospective elementary mathematics teachers (PMTs) acts as a creative process that聽reveals the potential benefits of mathematical Making in teacher learning.
Doctoral students, Erin Pomponio and Denish Akuom, along with their supervisor, Dr. Steven Greenstein, presented their paper, 鈥,鈥 at this year鈥檚 PMENA conference in Philadelphia. Congratulations Erin and Denish!

In this presentation, Erin, Denish, and Dr. Greenstein share their findings of an exploration of the problem solving of two learners as they aimed to make sense of fraction division by coordinating meanings across two artifacts, one being a physical manipulative and the other a written聽expression of the standard algorithm. In addressing the question, 鈥淗ow do learners make sense of and coordinate meanings across multiple representations of mathematical ideas?鈥 they took an enactivist聽perspective and used tools of semiotics to analyze the ways they navigated the dissonance that arose as they sought to achieve harmony in meanings across multiple representations of ideas.